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xxii ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

has analyzed social problems, deviance, and crime in rural communities by drawing upon
cross-theoretical interpretations. His most recent research has analyzed crime and law enforce-
ment in Australia. He is a past President of RC29 of the International Sociological Association.

Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, senior researcher in the Faculty of Education at the University of
Haifa, Israel, holds a doctorate from the University of Konstanz in Germany (adviser, Thomas
Luckmann). Her work centers on critical studies of alienation, everyday life, multiculturalism,
sociological perspectives on the senses, and biography in sociology. She is currently Vice-
President for Publications of the ISA, past President of ISA RC 36 (Alienation), and founding
editor of International Sociology Review of Books. Recent publications include a book on edu-
cation in Israel, one on ultra-orthodox women (with Karlheinz Schneider), and three edited vol-
umes on multiple citizenships in Europe (with Pirkko Pitkanen).

Mustafa Koc teaches as an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and the
Immigration and Settlement Studies Program at Ryerson University, Canada. He served as the
director of the Centre for Studies in Food Security (1995-2005) at Ryerson and the founding
president of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (2005-2008). His teaching and research
interests include sociology of agriculture and food, social impacts of globalization and restruc-
turing, and population movements. His publications include For Hunger-proof Cities, Working
Together, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Food Studies.

Leslie Laczko is Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the
University of Ottawa, Canada. He holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley
and McGill University, and is the author of Pluralism and Inequality in Quebec, as well as a
number of articles on language conflict, ethnic diversity, nationalism, the welfare state, and
religious change.
Robert Lambert is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, where
he is Director of the Australian Global Studies Centre. He is currently the President
of the International Sociological Association’s Labour Movements Research Committee.
His books include State and Labour in New Order Indonesia (University of Western
Australia Press, 1997); Work Choices: The New Industrial Relations Agenda, with Julian
Teicher and Anne O’Rourke (Prentice Hall, 2006), and Grounding Globalization: Labour in
the Age of Insecurity, with Edward Webster and Andries Bezuidenhout (Blackwell, March
2008). He is the founder and coordinator of SIGTUR, a southern movement of democratic
trade unions.

Lauren Langman is a Professor of Sociology at Loyola University of Chicago. He received his
PhD from the University of Chicago with further training at the Chicago Institute for
Psychoanalysis. He works in the tradition of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, especially
relationships between culture, alienation, politics/political movements, nations, and national
character. He is currently President of Research Committee 36 (Alienation) of ISA. He served
on the editorial boards of Sociological Theory, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, and
Critical Sociology. Recent publications have looked at alienation, social movements, Islamic
fundamentalism, the body, nationalism, and national character.

Jan Marontate, Hon. BA (York U.), MSc and PhD (U. Montréal) taught sociology and held a
Canada Research Chair in Technology and Culture at Acadia University in Nova Scotia before
joining the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in 2006. Her current research